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Description: | Scrapbook containing documents, photographs, postcards, watercolours and presscuttings relating to his military career 1911 - 1923 in particular on the Western Front during the First World War as Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment (1915) of 42nd Infantry Brigade (1915 - 1917), and as Divisional Commander 56th Division (1917 - 1918) including ms letters from Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Jeudwine, General Lord Byng and other senior commanders of the British Army, various official orders and papers, some relating to the YMCA, notes by him on the action at Delville Wood and on his career together with documents relating to the Coronation Durbar of HM King George V in India in December 1911 and a brief ms account written by his daughter describing her journey home to Liverpool from India in HMT SOMALI in 1914.
Cataloguer VAF
Catalogue date 1976-12-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Dudgeon, F A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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